After two long years of online conferences and cancellation of scientific community events, the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union was held in a hybrid on-site/online version. The European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2022 took place from 23-27 May in the Austria Center Vienna in Vienna, Austria. The aim of Europe’s largest and most prominent geoscientific event is to bring together scientist from all disciplines in the earth, planetary and space sciences. 14.317 participants, on-site and online, from more than 110 countries around the world attended the conference. Thanks to the GSGS travel Grant, I had the opportunity to be part of this conference on-site in Vienna.
Seven intense days of great debates, union symposia, inter- and transdisciplinary sessions, medal lectures, short courses, and education and outreach sessions gave me new insights into other related research projects and the state of the art in benthic foraminiferal research.
During this conference I also had the opportunity to present preliminary results of my third manuscript in a short oral presentation entitled “Understanding the taphonomic bias on the benthic foraminiferal bottom current proxy”. These results were generated during my work on the PhD project “Benthic foraminifera in Contourite Drifts Systems” and show that a potential bias in reconstructing bottom currents from benthic foraminiferal faunas was not considered in previous studies. It was important to me to present and discuss these relevant results to the community. The feedback and questions that have arisen will be of great help to me in preparing the publication.
The EGU general assembly was the perfect opportunity to network with other PhD students from all over the world, meet specialist from my research field and have time to reconnect with former alumni.
I would therefore like to thank the Graduate School of Geosciences for my travel grant to this conference.
Johanna Schmidt
PhD student
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy
PhD project: “Benthic foraminifera in Contourite Drifts Systems”
Oral presentation: “Understanding the taphonomic bias on the benthic foraminiferal bottom current proxy” (https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/EGU22-3933.html)